On this page you will find links to current and past news items in reverse chronological order.
| 5th World Team Championship (online) | 21 Apr 2008 |
| Congratulations to GBR A (Colchester's Neil Jenner ITM, Knaresborough's Rob Morton ITM*, Belfast's Simon Wright ITM, Newcastle's Zoe Andrews and James Preen, who now lives in Canada), who have become the World Team Tantrix Champions for the first time after beating teams from the USA, Israel, France, Germany, Poland and Hungary to win the title! results > |
| 7th British Open Table Tantrix Championship (London) | 6 Apr 2008 |
| The 2008 BOTTC was held at City University in London and involved entrants from 9 countries on three continents! It was won by Knaresborough's Rob Morton, the first Tantrix player ever to win three offline 'Opens'! results/pics > |
| Recent media coverage | 30 Jan 2008 |
| Recent media coverage for Tantrix has included Tantrix Discovery featured in the Sunday Telegraph magazine and on BBC TMI plus a number of in-depth reviews. what they say about Tantrix >
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| 4th German Open Table Tantrix Championship (Berlin) | 27 Jan 2008 |
| Congratulations to Twickenham's Rich Yagodich, who has just won the 2008 German Open in Berlin! results > |
| Your Tantrix news! | 31 Dec 2007 |
| Tantrix tournaments provide a constant stream of news but only involve a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Tantrix players in the UK & Ireland. Tantrix is far more than that, so if you've had an interesting or funny experience with Tantrix, why not let us know, preferably with a picture, and sooner or later you may find yourself in the Tantrix news! how to contact us > |
| 10th World Tantrix Championship (online) | 26 Nov 2007 |
| After 10 years of trying and three 4th places, Tantrix inventor Mike McManaway from New Zealand realised his dream of winning the World Championship! This year, it involved nearly 170 players from 25 countries, including 23 from the UK & Ireland. Mike beat GB no. 1 Neil Jenner from Colchester in the QFs. results > |
| World Record broken in the Netherlands - again! | 23 Nov 2007 |
| Not content with breaking the World Record once, Dutch Tantrix enthusiasts gathered in Zwolle a year later to put 43,544 Tantrix tiles together (with all touching colours matching) in just 12 hours! videos > |
| 9th European Tantrix Championship (online) | 7 Jun 2007 |
| Knaresborough's Rob Morton won the bronze medal in the 2007 European Tantrix Championship, which was won by Hungary's Tamás Gombkötő. results > |
| 4th World Team Championship (online) | 6 Apr 2007 |
| GBR A (Belfast's Simon Wright ITM, Colchester's Neil Jenner ITM & Lewis Palmer, Twickenham's Rick Yagodich and & Radstock's Esther Purnell) became the first GB team ever to reach the Final of the World Team Championship, where they narrowly lost to no. 2 seeds New Zealand A, headed by 4-time World individual Champion Matt Peek TGM. more > |
| 6th British Open Table Tantrix Championship (London) | 25 Mar 2007 |
| The 2007 British Open, held at City University in London on 24-25 March, was won by Zoltán Németh from Hungary. Canterbury's Angharad Taylor was the top UK player, winning the bronze medal. Belfast's Simon Wright won the U18 gold medal and Bromsgrove's Stephen Purkiss won the Rising Stars competition. results > |
| 6th World Junior Championship (online) | 24 Mar 2007 |
| 11-year old Hidde Ozinga from the Netherlands won the 5th World Junior Championship. Well done to Robert, 10, from St Neots & Oliver, 12, from Worcester, who reached the quarter-finals, where they each only lost to one of the eventual finalists. results > |
| 3rd German Open Table Tantrix Championship (Gießen) | 21 Jan 2007 |
| Congratulations to Knaresborough's Rob Morton, who took part in the 2007 German Open and came home with the gold medal! results > |
| World Record broken in the Netherlands | 8 Dec 2006 |
| On 8 December, 45 students came together in the Dutch town of Almere to put 25,463 Tantrix tiles together - with all touching colours matching! picture etc > |
| 9th World Tantrix Championship (online) | 2 Dec 2006 |
| Congratulations to Knaresborough's Rob Morton, who was the runner-up in the 2006 World Championship, which involved 200 entrants from 27 countries. He lost a close Final to top seed Matt Peek (NZL), a three-time former winner. results > |
| New World Record for the 4 Longest Lines Puzzle | 20 Sep 2006 |
| Canterbury's Angharad Taylor followed up her recent French Open win by proving that she's pretty impressive with the Tantrix solitaire puzzles too - she has just broken the world record for the one remaining Tantrix puzzle that has never been fully solved without the aid of a computer! details > |
| 2nd French Open Table Tantrix Championship (Paris) | 21 May 2006 |
| Congratulations to Angharad Taylor from Canterbury who stunned some of the top Tantrix players in the world in Paris, including Tantrix inventor Mike McManaway (NZL) by winning the French Open, less than two months after she played in her first-ever table tournament in London! results > |
| 5th World Junior Tantrix Championship | 15 Apr 2006 |
| Bromsgrove's Stephen Purkiss was our best performer in the 2006 World Junior Championship, reaching the quarter-finals before narrowly losing to last year's winner. Hungary's Zsofia Salat is the new Champion. results > |
| 8th European Tantrix Championship | 13 Apr 2006 |
| Congratulations to no. 8 seed Simon Wright from Belfast, who beat Pierre Sanchez of France to become only the second UK player ever to win the European Tantrix Championship! He came out on top in a competition that started off with 136 players from 17 countries! results > |
| 5th British Open Table Tantrix Championship (London) | 26 Mar 2006 |
| The 5th British Open Table Tantrix Championship took place at City University in London on 25-26 March 2006. Hungary's Attila 'the Hun' Mikulan won the title with Knaresborough's Rob Morton to top UK player in 4th place. Belfast's Simon Wright won U18 bronze while Angharad Taylor from Canterbury secured the 'Rising Stars' gold medal. full results > |
| 8th World Tantrix Championship (online) | 27 Nov 2005 |
| 29 British players and one Irishman entered the 8th online World Tantrix Championship. It was five years since the UK had last had a World Champion and this year there were nearly 200 entrants from 28 countries, but we ended up with all four semi-finalists! Many congratulations to new World Tantrix Champion Neil Jenner from Colchester who beat York's James Else by 5 games to 4 in the Final. Croydon's Julia Schwarz took 3rd place by beating Belfast's Simon Wright in a very close match that went to a tiebreak. results > |
| 1st Tantrix Doubles Championship (Online) | 12 Nov 2005 |
| They may have entered the first-ever Tantrix Doubles Championship mainly to make up the numbers but 8 months and about 40 hours of play later, Croydon's Julia Schwarz and Steven Trezise won the Final against the no. 1 seeds! GB players Zoe Andrews and Rob Morton finished 4th. results > |
| Tantrix Stars Meet the People | 30 Aug 2005 |
| What could Tim Henman have been asking double World Junior Champion Simon Wright about when he met him at the airport? see the answer > |
| 1st Hungarian Open Table Tantrix Championship (Budapest) | 7 Aug 2005 |
| Mauro Lazzara from Aberdeen (the player on the left in the Tournaments picture on the home page) finished 4th in the Hungarian Open, just missing out on a medal. Germany's Susi Rieger shocked the hosts by taking the title. |
| 7th European Tantrix Championship (Online) | 4 Jun 2005 |
| 36 players of the best Tantrix players in the UK & Ireland took part in this year's European Championship along with players from 15 other countries. Congratulations to James Else from York who finished 3rd and to Zoe Andrews from Newcastle who won the consolation competition. results > |
| "Just fan-tantrix!" | 12 May 2005 |
| Press coverage of the 2005 British Open Tantrix Championship can be seen here > |
| 4th British Open Table Tantrix Championship (Cambridge) | 8 May 2005 |
| Hungary's Laszlo Szobonya won the 2005 British Open Championship which took place at the Mind Sports Olympiad Cambridge event on 7-8 May. Esther Purnell from Radstock won the 'Rising Stars' gold medal with Malcolm Preen from Harlow taking bronze and Attila Mikulan from Hungary won U18 gold. Entrants came from eleven countries and included reigning World Champion Péter Petrecz. results > |
| Qualifying Event for the British Open (Frome) | 30 Mar 2005 |
| Congratulations to Esther Purnell from Radstock & Mike Gwilliam from Frome who won a mini-tournament run by Wassail Games to find two local players to sponsor to attend the British Open in Cambridge - details on their site > |
| 4th World Junior Tantrix Championship (Online) | 27 Feb 2005 |
| Simon Wright, 15, from Belfast, the no. 2 seed and one of six entrants from the UK finished 2nd in the 2005 World Junior Championship, narrowly losing out to the Dutch player Hidde Ozinga in the Final. Congratulations also to no. 14 seed Amy H, 14, from Cheltenham who finished 4th. results > |
| 1st German Open Championship (Giessen, 22-23 Jan) | 23 Jan 2005 |
| Knaresborough's Rob Morton ITM finished 2nd in the 1st German Open Table Tantrix Championship, won by Finland's Heli Niemi. These two players became the first ever Table Tantrix Masters. Twickenham's Rick Yagodich and Aberdeen's Mauro Lazzara also reached the final eight. results > |
| 7th World Tantrix Championship (Online) | 25 Nov 2004 |
| 174 of the best Tantrix players in the world from 25 countries on 5 continents took part in the World Championship and one of the UK's 31 entrants, Knaresborough's Rob Morton ITM, made it all the way to the Final before losing narrowly to new World Champion Péter Petrecz ITM from Hungary. results > |
| 2nd World Blitz Tantrix Championship (Online) | 3 Sep 2004 |
| Hungary's Tamás Gombkötő won this year's World Blitz Tantrix Championship. Belfast's Simon Wright and Wolverhampton's Marion Scott reached the semi-finals and quarter-finals respectively. KO phase results > |
| The UK has a second International Tantrix Master | 31 Jul 2004 |
| Congratulations to Rob Morton, who has become the UK's second ITM! details > |
| 3rd World Team Championship (Online) | 12 Jul 2004 |
| GBR A battled through the knockout phase to come 3rd in the World Team Championship, losing only to top seeds HUN A who retained their title. GBR B and GBR C also reached the QFs, in the face of strong competition from more than a dozen other countries in the group phase, in which Ireland's Mark Harris captained the Rest of Europe team. GBR D and GBR E lost in the preliminary round but only by narrow margins. WTTC home page > |
| Logical Challenge magazine | 20 May 2004 |
| Have you seen (and solved!) the Tantrix puzzle on the back of this month's Logical Challenge yet? more > |
| 3rd British Open Championship (Cambridge, 1-2 May) | 2 May 2004 |
| Rob Morton of Knaresborough beat off challengers from nine countries to win the British Open Table Tantrix Championship over the May Day bank holiday weekend. Other UK players also did well. full results > |
| Fantantrix News | 30 Apr 2004 |
| The British Open Tantrix Championship has been making the news - entrants Rick Yagodich (GBR) and Petra Wark (NED) were interviewed by BBC Radio and the event was featured in various newspapers. see articles > |
| 6th European Championship (Online) | 24 Apr 2004 |
| 30 UK players & 1 Irishman have been playing in the 6th European Championship against players from 11 other countries. Colchester's Neil Jenner made it to the Final where he narrowly lost to Hungarian Tamás Gombkötő. Three other UK players reached the QFs. Well done Neil! more > |
| 3rd World Junior Championship (Online) | 29 Feb 2004 |
| Belfast's Simon Wright, 14, put up a valiant defence of his World U16 title but lost in the SFs to new young Hungarian star Tamás Gombkötő, 15. He recovered to record a near-record win in the playoff for 3rd place. press article & more > |
| Rob Morton breaks world "Four Longest Lines" record | 19 Jan 2004 |
| Rob Morton of Knaresborough has just increased the human (unaided) world record for the Four Longest Lines puzzle to 142, just four away from the theoretical maximum. His dad Barry got in on the act too ... more > |
| Tantrix voted "Toy of the Year 2003" in Hungary | 2 Dec 2003 |
| Tantrix has just won two more awards within a week, both in Hungary, including their overall "Toy of the Year" award! more > |
| 6th World Tantrix Championship (Online) | 23 Nov 2003 |
| Over 150 of the world's best players from 21 countries entered this year's World Championship. Grand master Matt Peek (NZL) won an amazing third world title in succession. 25 UK players and one Irishman made it to the 128-player main draw, with Twickenham's Rick Yagodich finishing 3rd, while Colchester's Neil Jenner and Knaresborough's Rob Morton reached the QFs. more > |
| TANTRIX GAME PACK WINS TOP UK AWARD | 31 Oct 2003 |
| The Tantrix Game Pack has won the Good Toy Guide's Gold Award for Best Game ahead of some very high quality opposition! Comments from the guide itself have now been added. more > |
| 1st World Junior Blitz Tantrix Championship (Online) | 12 Oct 2003 |
| Belfast's Simon Wright was the runner-up in the World Junior Blitz Championship, losing to on-form Tamas Gombkoto from Hungary in the Final. more > |
| 1st World Blitz Tantrix Championship (Online) | 1 Sep 2003 |
| Congratulations to Twickenham's Rick Yagodich who has finished 2nd in the World Blitz Championship behind Grand Master Matt Peek (NZL) more > |
| 2nd World Team Tantrix Championship (Online) | 22 Jul 2003 |
| Hungary A have won the 2nd World Team Championship, beating NZL B in the Final. more > |
| Three UK teams reach World Team QFs | 27 Jun 2003 |
| Impressively, three of the five UK teams survived the group phase of this year's WTTC, but lost out in tough quarter-finals, GBR A to eventual winners HUN A, GBR B to eventual runners up NZL B & GBR C to last year's champions NZL A. more > |
| New Tantrix Discovery world record | 22 May 2003 |
| Michael Channin of London broke the world Tantrix Discovery record with a loop of 120 tiles. more > |
| 2nd British Open Table Championship (Cambridge) | 4 May 2003 |
| Ben Polman claimed the British Open trophy for the Netherlands ahead of England's Rob Morton & Tom McCoy. Results, reports & pictures can be found here > |
| At last - an ultimate unaided Four Longest Loops solution | 10 Mar 2003 |
| Jack Kuipers of Bristol Uni. & London has become the first player in the world to find a solution scoring 136 without the aid of a computer. more > |
| 2nd World Junior Championship (Online) | 22 Feb 2003 |
| 13-y-o Simon Wright from Belfast retained his World Junior Title, beating NZ's Chris Hill in the Final! more > (also covered in the Belfast Telegraph) |
| Tantrix is one of the "Top 10 Family Games" | 17 Dec 2002 |
| The Tantrix Game Pack appeared in the Independent's "Top 10 Family Games" list. more > |
| 5th World Tantrix Championship (Online) | 1 Dec 2002 |
| Matt Peek (NZL) beat Dave Dyer (USA) in the Final of the 5th World Tantrix Championship, with Wolverhampton's Kevin Scott in 4th place. more > |
| Eleanor in the news | 30 Oct 2002 |
| 16-y-o Eleanor Gordon made the local news when her impressive progress in the 2002 World Championship found her playing Grand Master Matt Peek. more > |
| 1st World Team Tantrix Championship (Online) | 19 Aug 2002 |
| NZL A won the first ever World Team Championship. GBR B were the best B team in the event. more > |
| Rick's Barbecue 2002 | 17 Aug 2002 |
| Our cameras infiltrated the secret UK pre World Championship training camp ... more > |
| Wino saves Lincoln Tantrix addicts from insanity | 29 Jul 2002 |
| At last, Tantrix addicts in Lincolnshire can get hold of tiles easily! more > |
| 1st British Open Table Championship (Cambridge) | 4 May 2002 |
| Tom McCoy won the first ever official offline table Tantrix Championship held in Cambridge more > |
| 4th European Tantrix Championship (Online) | 2 May 2002 |
| Steven Trezise from Croydon became the first British player to win the European Championship when he best Frank Heyer (FRA) in the Final. more > |
| 1st World Junior Tantrix Championship (Online) | 15 Mar 2002 |
| 12-y-o Simon Wright from Belfast won the first ever World Junior Championship, beating Brett Laishley (AUS) in the Final. more > |
| Tantrix is one of the "50 Best Toys" | 1 Dec 2001 |
| Tantrix was listed as the top creative/educational toy and 2nd overall in the Independent's "50 Best Toys" list. more > |
| 4th World Tantrix Championship (Online) | 18 Nov 2001 |
| Matt Peek (NZL) beat Heli Niemi (FIN) in the Final of the 4th World Tantrix Championship. Martin Harlow of Croydon was the best-place Briton, reaching the quarter-finals. more > |
| Tantrix in Sutton | 17 Jun 2001 |
| Alexander Smout challenged his friends and teachers in Sutton to take on the Tantrix Discovery Challenge. more > |
| Julia Schwarz - World Tantrix Champion | 29 Jan 2001 |
| Paul Smith's interview with new World Champion Julia Schwarz probed some vital issues such as the importance of orange juice and oat biscuits when playing at the highest level ... more > |
| Tantrix at the London MathFest | 20 Jan 2001 |
| Lots of people had fun with Tantrix during the London MathFest. more > |
| 3rd World Tantrix Championship (Online) | 22 Dec 2000 |
| Preston student Julia Schwarz won the 3rd World Tantrix Championship, beating Matt Kearse (NZL) in the Final, with former World Champion Steven Trezise of Croydon in 3rd place. more > |
